RT Article
T1 Constructing Suspicion Through Forensic DNA Databases in the EU. The Views of the Prüm Professionals
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 60
IS 1
SP 141
OP 159
A1 Machado, Helena
A1 Amelung, Nina 1981-
A1 Granja, Rafaela
A2 Amelung, Nina 1981-
A2 Granja, Rafaela
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1687582726
AB This article explores the fluid and flexible forms of constructing suspicion, which take shape in transnational governance of crime through forensic DNA databases. The empirical examples are the views of professionals engaged with the so-called Prüm system. This technological identification system was developed to enable DNA data exchange across EU Member States in the context of police and judicial cooperation to control cross-border crime and terrorism. We argue that suspicion is constructed through forms of deterritorializing and reterritorializing assumptions about criminality linked to the movements of suspect communities across the European Union. Transnational crime management is configured through narratives of global expansion of criminal mobility, technical neutrality of DNA identification and the reliance on criminal categorizations of particular national populations.
K1 Suspicion
K1 Deterritorializing
K1 Reterritorializing
K1 Prüm system
K1 Forensic DNA databases
K1 Cross-border crime
DO 10.1093/bjc/azz057